In Our View
What the Legislature did and didn’t get done
It’s over. For this year at least.
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Protect kids from e-cigarettes
While the safety and effectiveness of vaping products as a way to wean smokers from tobacco will continue…
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Bad and good news on salmon
Along with being an important source of food and a cultural icon for Northwesterners, salmon also serve as…
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FDA needs cure for conflict
After years of unrestrained pharmaceutical influence, the federal Food and Drug Administration has completely lost its way. Scientists,…
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Two paths after the Oso landslide
Two years have now passed since a landslide cut through the Stillaguamish Valley’s Steelhead Haven neighborhood near Oso,…
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Where we’ll get our workers
We need a word that expresses both concern for a problem but also recognizes the opportunities that the…
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How should we keep a whale?
It’s not the happy ending of “Free Willy,” where Willy, an orca whale portrayed by the captive killer…
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State gets an ‘F’ for its effort on education spending
Even after state lawmakers agreed to put the matter off until next year by calling for more study,…
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Open legislators’ emails to Open Public Records Act
“The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good…
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Put children before phones
“Do as I say, not as I do,” is an old, ineffective parental directive. But research shows that…
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Lessons on road to I-405 tolls
Thanks to lawmaker ears that, because of the election season, are now more finely attuned, the squeaky wheels…
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Alcohol makers need to do more to limit ads kids see
Among advertisements on TV, it’s hard not to like many of those that market beer, wine and spirits.…
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Senate Republicans hiding behind the ‘Biden rule’
Who knew that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, and the rest of the Senate Republicans had turned…
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Housing the 99 and beyond
There’s a shared responsibility in ending homelessness for all, but the duty is felt more sharply when those…
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Students building bridges with a hug
It started as a Kamiak High School student’s idea to add a spirit of giving back during her…
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Time to ‘repark’ ordinance
Sometimes an attempted solution to a problem turns out to be worse than the original problem. So seems…
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Sharing in the pain of state budget inaction
For many of us, childhood paddlings were preceded by a parent’s assurance that “this is going to hurt…
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State proves benefits of trade
Trade has made for an easy target during the campaigns of both Democratic and Republican presidential candidates.
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Inslee has a better method of persuasion than veto
On the Political Scale of Persuasion, Gov. Jay Inslee’s threat to veto bills the Legislatures has passed or…